Li The Cold War in East Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-22947-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

This textbook provides a survey of East Asian countries, including Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam during the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. The narrative helps students form a better understanding of the origins and development of post-WWII East Asia; the persistence and flexibility of its culture and tradition when confronted by the West and the US; and how they intermesh to establish the nations that have entered the modern world.

This textbook also includes pedagogical features designed to aid learning such as:

- Chapter summaries

- A chronology

- Maps, photographs, tables and figures

- Questions to test comprehension of main ideas and major events

- Key terms to highlight important peoples, locations, and concepts.

- A glossary

Moving away from Euro-Americancentric approaches and illuminating the larger themes and patterns in the development of East Asian modernity, The Cold War in East Asia is an essential resources for courses on Asia's role in the Cold War, Modern East Asia and Cold war history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Li, Xiaobing

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Note on Transliteration

Maps and Figures

Introduction: Struggle and Survive the Cold War

Part One Wars and Revolutions

Chapter 1 World War II in the Pacific (1941-1945)

Pearl Harbor (1941)

Japan’s conquest and occupation (1941-1945)

Anti-Japanese movements

Allied support to armed resistance (1941-1945)

Roosevelt’s plan for post-war East Asia

Stalin’s second front



Chapter 2 The US and USSR in East Asia (1945-1948)

The origin of the Cold War

Truman’s containment policy

US aid: programs, progress, and problems

The Soviet support in East Asia

Communist parties

Independence movement and nationalism



Chapter 3 American Occupation of Japan (1945-1951)

MacArthur and Hirohito

From foe to post-war alliance

SCAP and the 1947 Constitution

Yoshida as prime minister

Economic recovery

Social and cultural changes



Chapter 4 The CCP’s Victory (1949) and the Taiwan Crisis

Chinese Communist Party

Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong

The United Front in the Anti-Japanese War

The Chinese Civil War (1946-1949)

Mao’s People’s Republic of China

Jiang’s government in Taiwan

The 1954 Taiwan Strait Crisis





Part Two The East vs. the West

Chapter 5 The Korean War (1950-1953)

Two Koreas (1948)

Northern invasion and the UN forces

China’s intervention

From mobile to trench warfare

Negotiating a cease-fire

Post-war Koreas



Chapter 6 The First Indochina War (1946-1954)

Ho and the DRV (1945)

French return and offensive campaigns

The "people’s war" with Chinese aid

Giap and Dien Bien Phu (1954)

The Geneva Convention

Impact of the war: two Vietnams



Chapter 7 Japan and the Cold War

Political movements

US trade and market

Export-oriented manufacturing

Economic taking-off

Changing society: middle class, women, and nuclear family

Self-defense forces



Chapter 8 The Sino-Soviet split (1957-1976)

Soviet leaders after Stalin

Khrushchev and Mao

Polemic debate

Breakup and show-down

Communist Cold War

Chinese Cultural Revolution



Chapter 9 The Vietnam War (1965-1973)

Diem and South Vietnam

US aid in the Kennedy administration

Johnson’s War in Vietnam

International Communist aid

Nixon’s trip to China and negotiations

The North’s victory (1975)





Part Three Bi-polar, Triangle, and Global

Chapter 10 The US, Soviet Union, and China 247

Sino-US rapprochement

US-Soviet détente

Sino-Soviet border conflict

Reagan’s Cold War

Chapter 11 China’s Reforming Movement (1978-1989)

Mao’s death and the Gang of Four (1976)

Deng’s return and reform (1978)

China’s invasion of Vietnam (1979)

China’s opening up to the West (1979-1989)

Chapter 12 Doi Moi and the Vietnamese Reform

Economic development in the South (1960s-1970s)

Democracy and social transition (1980s)

Doi Moi (1986)

Economic liberalization (the 1990s)



Chapter 13 North and South Koreas

Economic growth and democratization in the South

Dictators in the North (1960s-1980s)

New regime and new problems

North Korea’s nuclear challenge



Chapter 14 Evolving Superpower

Economic growth (1980s)

Political problems and crises

Tiananmen Square Massacre

Jiang as the new leader (the 1990s)



Chapter 15 The End of the Cold War

The collapse of the Soviet Union (1991)

Bush’s new world order

Post-Cold War East Asia

Globalization and democratization



Conclusion: US-East Asian Relations

Glossary

Appendices

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Xiaobing Li is a Professor of History at Central Oklahoma University, USA.